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The urban population was 30.5% of the total at the beginning, which ended up at 36.6%. Dhaka, the largest city, with a population of 14.7 million, accounted for 31.8% of the total urban population by 2019. Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) changed from 58.2% to 49.0% by the end of the decade.
Dhaka Stock Exchange is the largest stock exchange in Bangladesh, and third largest in South Asia with a market capitalization of $72.1 billion. [5] Dhaka is the world's 38th largest city by GDP and has the country's only rapid transit system, the Dhaka Metro Rail.
Dhaka, the largest city, with a population of 10.3 million, accounted for 33.1% of the total urban population by 2009. United Nations World Population Prospects [33] show that the population growth rate was in decreasing trend (from 2.0% per annum to 1.1%), primarily due to reduction in fertility rate (births per woman) from 3.2 to 2.4. Life ...
Dhaka is a megacity, and has a population of 10.2 million residents as of 2024, and a population of over 23.9 million residents in Dhaka Metropolitan Area. [ 22 ] [ 14 ] [ 23 ] It is widely considered to be the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world.
According to World Bank, more than 33 million Bangladeshi people have been lifted out of poverty since 2000; as measured by the percentage of people living on the equivalent of US$1.90 or less per day in 2011 purchasing price parity terms. [3] [4] Since early-2000s, rapid economic growth has fueled a remarkable increase in per-capita income.
Countries need a fertility rate of about 2.1 kids per family to maintain a stable population. But two-thirds of the world's population already lives in countries where fertility is below this so ...
Their population declined from about 1 million in 1971 to 600,000 in the late 1980s. [32] Refugees International has called them a "neglected and stateless" people as they are denied citizenship by the governments of Bangladesh and Pakistan. [33] As nearly 40 years has passed, two generations of Biharis have been born in these camps.
In July 2017, 36 new wards were added to the two city corporations. [127] Dhaka Metro Rail started operations in December 2022. [128] As of December 2022, Dhaka has an estimated population of more than 22.4 million, making it the largest city in Bangladesh and the 4th largest city in the world. [129]